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Visual Studio 2015 was once named Visual Studio 2014
Visual Studio 2015 was apparently once going to be named Visual Studio 2014, based on some of the shortcuts installed with the recently released preview: Continuing the Microsoft tradition of skipping...
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Windows 10 is slightly less pushy about requiring Microsoft accounts
In Windows 8, users were strongly encouraged to use a Microsoft account to sign in to their computers. For those of us who preferred local accounts, the option to ‘sign in without a Microsoft account’...
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I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature: The 'Get Windows 10'...
As the great Raymond Chen once wrote: I often find myself saying, “I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature.” “That feature” is something aggressively user-hostile, like forcing a...
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RealPlayer/RealDownloader poses as Firefox running on 64-bit Linux and sends...
I recently noticed some strange HTTP logs where a resource would be requested twice with two different User-Agent headers. In one case, the first request suggested the client was running Chrome on...
View ArticleBeware of the MiniNT registry key
As of Windows 10 Version 1511, ReFS isn’t available by default as an option when formatting drives that aren’t part of a Storage Space. It’s easy, however, to enable this functionality by adding a...
View ArticleUbuntu 16.04: heirloom-mailx is replaced by s-nail
As of Ubuntu 16.04, the heirloom-mailx package is a transitional package for s-nail. Not realising this, I was having trouble with mailx not recognising the /etc/nail.rc file I’d copied from a working...
View ArticleHigh sensitivity headphones are picky about amps
Recently I decided to upgrade a pair of long in the tooth Shure SE215 IEMs after one too many wonky cables and a disintegrating right ear piece (the drivers are working as well as ever). I settled on...
View ArticleWebRender in Firefox 83 in Fedora 33 (KDE 5.20, X11)
I wanted to test out WebRender in Firefox now that it’s on the brink of being turned on by default in GNOME environments. Despite enabling gfx.webrender.all, about:support showed that WebRender wasn’t...
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TeamViewer (sometimes) doesn’t work with DNSSEC enabled
Update (2022-12-06): It looks like TeamViewer fixed their DNS config (before and after). Update (2022-11-12): I tested again after Frankie in the comments noted that it works on his machine, and...
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Enabling Suica support for a non-Japanese Fitbit device/account
TL;DR: change your Fitbit account country to Japan here (not in the app). Whether you can actually add funds with a non-Japan-issued credit or debit card is a separate matter. At the time of writing,...
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